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In general, composite materials are described as materials with two or more different materials combined to blend the properties of all the constituent materials. In the same way, the composite‐based NM is a multiphase material with at least one of the dimensions in nanoscale, which is obtained by combining one NM with other or blending one NM with bulk or larger material to form a NM (Vollath, 2013). Bones and the eggshells are the best examples of naturally occurring composite NMs. These NMs generally possess highly improved physical, chemical, mechanical, and biological properties in comparison to their constituent materials. Nanocomposite materials can be of different combinations such as metal/metal, metal/ceramic, carbon/carbon, and ceramic/ceramic (Jeevanandam et al., 2018).